Motif
holy scholar's death accompanied by mass conversion
holy_scholar_s_death_accompanied_by_mass_conversion
A motif of the Divine Intervention and Guidance family, within the sub-family Saintly Miracle and Holy Power. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
islamic
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) SECTION VI. / OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE KORAN IN CIVIL AFFAIRS. / SECTION VII. / SECTION VIII.; lines 7374-7423 confidence: medium
Ebn Hanbal dies at Baghdad in 241; a very large number of men and women follow him to his grave, and twenty thousand Christians, Jews, and Magians are reported to embrace the Mohammedan faith that day.
The passage reports as extraordinary or possibly miraculous that twenty thousand non-Muslims converted on the day of Ebn Hanbal's death.
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